DCHP-2

bourgeois [< Cdn F] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a n. — Hist.

  master; employer; boss.

  See also: booshway  

• 1b n. — Lumbering

  See quotes.

• 2a n.

  a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.

  See also: North West Company  wintering partner (def. 1)  

• 2b n.

  See wintering partner (def. 2) 1905 quote.

  See also: wintering partner (def. 2)  

• 3 n. — Obs.

  See quote.